Donagh Mullins, Robert O'Donnell, An Taoiseach, Jim Devlin, Hugh Cooney (DC Photographer Marty Katz, washingtonphotographer.com)

Ireland’s new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) meets AI management in Washington, DC on St Patrick’s Day 2011.

March 10, 2011

Gartner Research Director Leif Eriksen met with AI today to learn more about the company. Gartner Inc. is the world’s leading information technology research company.

Lang Xu, Director of Mobile Commerce, gave an in-depth presentation  on the theme “AI, who we are, what we do, and why we believe our service is differentiated”.  Lang used market data and a case study to demonstrate how AI is positioned competitively and how it delivers value to its customers. Mr. Eriksen commented that he could see many opportunities for AI in the future and said that looks forward to following the company in the future.

As Gartner is so influential, it is very good to get AI visible on its radar.

AI offers a complete solution for the outsourcing of mobile devices.

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See EoY TV’s interview with Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, Robert O’Donnell, CEO of Advanced Innovations: http://www.eoy.tv/entrepreneur_detail.php?eID=36

Everybody at Advanced Innovations is very proud of Robert’s achievement. It required additional time and effort from someone to whom time is especially valuable. The dedication and energy that Robert gives to Advanced Innovations motivates and stimulates the entire staff to work well with our customers and partners while keeping the focus on results.

by Dermot Corrigan

http://www.enn.ie/story/show/10125921

Irish company Advanced Innovations is helping Oracle showcase its new cloud strategies at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference in San Francisco.



Advanced Innovations SVP IT, Michael Higgins

Advanced Innovations Senior Vice-President IT Michael Higgins said he was demonstrating Advanced Innovations’ own deployments of Oracle applications in the Amazon cloud at OpenWorld. Oracle announced on Monday that its customers could now deploy their Oracle software within Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) service.

“On Monday I spoke about our success at deploying the Oracle E-Business Suite in the cloud and then around Oracle back-up and recovery in the cloud,” Higgins said. “On Tuesday I also spoke about Oracle SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) instrumentation and SOA governance.”

Limerick-based Advanced Innovations creates and orchestrates global supply-chain networks for designing, building and delivering electronic products. It has partners in Ireland, China, India, UK and USA. The company was established in 2003, has 40 staff and reported revenues of over USD41 million in 2009. Higgins said that smart deployment of cutting-edge IT solutions had allowed Advanced Innovations to grow so quickly.

“Our business is doubling revenue each year, yet our headcount increase is under 5 percent a year,” he said. “Our use of Oracle Oracle WebCenter Suite, Beehive collaboration tool and SOA means our Chinese parts supplier can use a laptop and a web self-service screen to see how many transistors he can supply us.”

Brian McCoy, Gov Bob Riley, Simon O'Keeffe

Advanced Innovations Chairman, Brian McCoy and Director, SVP Marketing, Simon O’Keeffe met with Governor Riley of Alabama and Neal Wade, Director of the Alabama Development Office during the Governor’s official visit to Ireland in July. The Governor is known for his interest in commerce, education and open government. The meeting gave Advanced Innovations the opportunity to start to forge links with the State of Alabama and with local business in Huntsville. Meetings in Huntsville will ensue.

Advanced Innovations set up in Huntsville, Alabama in 2005 with Jeff Barrick leading the operation. It now has 10 staff based there and the company has several programs with suppliers in the area.

Some facts about Alabama:

Capital: Montgomery

Largest city: Birmingham Pop.: 229,800 (2007 estimate)

Width 190 miles (306 km)

Length 330 miles (531 km)

Population 4,661,900 (2008 est.)

Highest point Mount Cheaha, 2,413 ft (734 m)

Admission to Union December 14, 1819 (22nd)

Governor Robert R. Riley (R)

Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom, Jr. (D)

U.S. Senators Richard Shelby (R) and Jeff Sessions (R)

U.S. House delegation Aderholt, Robert (R), Bachus, Spencer (R), Bonner, Jo (R), Bright, Bobby (D), Davis, Artur (D), Griffith, Parker (R), Rogers, Mike (R).

Time zone Central: UTC-6/DST-5

Website http://www.alabama.gov

AI CEO, Robert O’Donnell featured in Irish Times

Irish Times article features Robert and AI

Limerick, Ireland 17 May 2010.

Advanced Innovations, a world leader in the creation and orchestration of global supply chain networks that design, build and deliver electronic products for its customers, today announced that its CEO, Robert O’Donnell has been shortlisted for the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Read More…